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Kamala Harris is dropping out of the 2020 presidential race
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some of them unironically tried to argue that she was left of Larry Krasner lmao
Yeah taking just one look at her whole truancy criminalization thing and it's clear she doesn't give a damn about black families beyond her ability to use them as a camapign prop
I maintain they were real but mostly just rand-ish libertarians looking for an outsider and you don't see them so much in the discourse now because they all went for yang
That doesn't speak to candidates dropping out as soon as they should. And its wrong on top of that. Sanders dropping will benefit Warren the most and finally make her competitive with Biden outside of IA and NH. Surveys have been saying that for a while now.
If so then they are statistically insignificant and still are just a David "a little bit nutty, a little bit slutty" Brock creation
Which surveys?
More like it's funny seeing people act like they won when they have done nothing to stop the person most likely to beat them. Unless I'm supposed to believe that the minds behind such images as "Smiling Kamala Harris arrests black child with a Thin Blue Line Flag in the background" actually support Joe Biden.
making fun of blue lives matter while making fun of someone for being a cop are the tactics of the right?
The worry - among people who don't want Biden to be the nominee - is that all the non-Biden votes get split between too many other candidates in early primaries and he walks away with it (as voters in later primaries either change their vote to the now-inevitable candidate or lose enthusiasm to participate in the primary). Like how the Republican primaries split the non-Trump vote between Cruz, Rubio, Kasich, Carson.
I worry about what happens when we've got like 8 candidates still on the ballot when the first primaries roll around.
I'm not cheering her departure, but I am glad to see the field narrow a bit.
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I wonder if she'd have done better if she'd come out of the gate with something like this ad they had just cut.
Yep, that bill was fucking evil and everyone who voted for it shouldn't ever live that down.
Yeah.
I mean The Discourse has had folks showing their asses with respect to class reductionism too but that's not 1:1 with Sanders support, especially because the topic's an international brainvirus that lasts beyond any single American candidacy. And I say this as someone who sat out the '16 dem primary specifically because neither candidate could seem to talk about racial issues in the era of Black Lives Matter without being grossly patronizing.
in terms of Sanders 2016 "bad faith" support I would argue that there were exponentially more people who hated Hillary from the right than the left, but that's not convenient for the party establishment to keep the left flank in line
It's only a good ad if you ignore all the other shit she 'prosecuted'. The criticism of her was never that she was ineffective at prosecuting people she should (except the corrupt cops she refused to prosecute), it's that she prosecuted too many people she shouldn't have.
Hopefully, this. I think her attacks on fellow presidential hopefuls were pointed and believe she would be even more effective against republicans.
Which candidate has the most billionaire donors, though? 🤔
Sooner we get down to Biden, Warren, Sanders and Buttigieg, the better. Maybe we can have actual decent debates then... likely after half the country voted already
And let's not forget her truancy policy. That shit was horrendous.
If a Democrat wins in November, I think she's likely to get a cabinet position, or a high ranking DoJ appointment. Depends if she ends up endorsing the eventual nominee at the right time. But bowing out early in December is something that most future Chiefs of Staff will look kindly on her for. What helps her for a cabinet or White House appointed position, too, is that her senate seat is safe in California, which is something that a candidate like Amy Klobochar doesn't have going for her for a WH position down the line.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not handwaving everything that was problematic about her and her record. I'm really just looking at the ad and direction from a marketing POV. I mean Biden is fucking terrible but it's working for him somehow.
Congrats folks... truly brilliant political strategery from the same geniuses who think Bernie would win the reddest of states in the general just because he won every county there in a primary...
Can't wait to see them now focus their internet wrath on trying to finish off Warren for not passing some ideological purity test, as if that's going to change the fact that Bernie seems to have a ceiling of around 20-25%...
At least Harris and her "cop" skills will be useful when impeachment reaches the Senate, and for any Senate hearings in a potential second Trump term when he would be even more brazen in his disregard for the rule of law...
Shout out to the posters over the months who "corrected" me for calling Kamala a cop from day one. Maybe listen to the people who actually live in the state the candidate is from next time?
Cold dogshit of a take that "Berners forced Kamala out." TIp: It wasn't Berners failing to give her money.
How is this a result of anything "Berners" did and not a direct result of her campaign being so poorly run that 50 different employees spilled the beans to the NYT?
The great irony remains that by forcing Harris out, Warreners have effectively guaranteed that Biden will win South Carolina, the South, and the nomination.
Yeah, uh, hot take, actually Kopmala memes don't matter and did not cause Kamala to drop out, her inability to feign interest in policy or mount a coherent justification of her campaign and apparently to manage her staff caused her to drop out.
Although the REAL thing that caused her to drop out is probably:
If you're not a small dollar raiser, the party can still choke you out of the campaign.
Kind of amazing that you can post this in this thread without even blinking
